Foundational Weapons For A Modern War
Nobody knows for sure when the concept of a “just war” was first articulated — just war meaning the moral justification for waging war against one’s enemies, and the acceptable conduct in war once hostilities arise. Modern war makers don’t seem to care much about these rules anymore, and a lot of
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I don’t know what happened on 9/11, and neither do you. Barring some monumental reshuffling of the world’s power structure, we may never know. But we can say with absolute certainty what didn’t happen on 9/11, and that’s what we’re going to focus on today: the impossible science of 9/11. According to
There are plenty of legitimate reasons why Kamala Harris is unqualified to be President of the United States, but I was taken aback recently by those who disqualify her from leadership because she’s a woman. Even more surprising was that others enthusiastically applauded that assertion. People really believe that women are disqualified
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You’ve probably never heard of Bruce Boynton. It’s arguable that Boynton was more important than Rosa Parks in ending segregation, but his relative obscurity underlies the fact that there were thousands of brave Americans at that time willing to go against the hive mentality of their day. They were scared, isolated, often
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It was one of Edward Gibbon’s five attributes that marked the fall of the Roman Empire: freakishness in the arts. The others, increased desire to live off the state, enthusiasm pretending to be creativity, a mounting love of show and luxury, an obsession with sex and especially homosexuality also apply to the Paris
It wasn’t until my early twenties that I learned one of life’s most important lessons: Never put your faith in men, only put your faith in God. Before I became a Christian, I rolled the dice of life and hoped for the best. Some people proved steadfast and kind, others screwed me
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The courts are not our friends, they never have been and they weren’t designed to be. The courts are supposed to be a cold arbiter of the law, not a chummy club where influence and graft curries favor from the bench. But courts became that way, because human nature is corruptible like that. … Continue readingThe Bad Guys: Part VI, The Courts